Q&A: Thoughts on Mark-to-Market
What do you think of the mark to market issue? EFF: It gives investors a good estimate of what a financial institution is worth. It has more flexibility than commonly realized, especially for illiquid...
View ArticleQ&A: Inverted Yield Curves
I have a client who is convinced that an inverted yield curve is a signal to get out of equities. What are your thoughts on this topic? EFF/KRF: Inverted yield curves are often observed at the front...
View ArticleGetting Started? Ether Sets New High Above $500
Ethereum's native token is trading at all-time highs,
View ArticleChina State TV: OTC Bitcoin Platforms May Violate Regulation
Commentary on China's state television suggests a ban on cryptocurrency trading platforms may extend further than startups originally thought.
View ArticleTokenized Fund-of-Funds to Raise $100 Million Via ICO
A new tokenized fund-of-funds was announced yesterday that aims to raise up to $100 million via an initial coin offering.
View ArticleBitcoin 'Ought to Be Outlawed,' Economist Joseph Stiglitz Says
Bitcoin "doesnât serve any socially useful function," says Joseph Stiglitz, a former World Bank chief economist and onetime adviser to the U.S. president.
View ArticleBitcoin Price Falls $1,000 in Minutes to Drop Below $10k
The price of bitcoin experienced a dramatic decline today at a time when many major exchanges were showing signs of stress from new interest.
View ArticleCFTC Swaps Report Update
CFTC's Weekly Swaps Report has been updated, and is now available.read more...
View ArticleDistributions of Historic Market Data - Stock Returns. (arXiv:1711.11003v1...
We show that the moments of the distribution of historic stock returns are in excellent agreement with the Heston model and not with the multiplicative model, which predicts power-law tails of...
View ArticleNotes on Fano Ratio and Portfolio Optimization. (arXiv:1711.10640v1 [q-fin.PM])
We discuss - in what is intended to be a pedagogical fashion - generalized "mean-to-risk" ratios for portfolio optimization. The Sharpe ratio is only one example of such generalized "mean-to-risk"...
View ArticleUsing nonlinear stochastic and deterministic (chaotic tools) to test the EMH...
Utilization of non-linear tools to characterize the state of development of the electricity markets in Italy and Greece. This is equivalent to testing the Efficient Market Hypothesis on these markets....
View ArticleICO Pros Call for Self-Regulation Citing SEC Risk
The ICO community must self-regulate to lessen the blows likely to come from enforcement and regulatory actions, said speakers at Consensus: Invest.
View ArticleCrypto Corrupts the Youth? South Korea Prime Minister Says So
Prime Minister Lee Nak-yeon reportedly frets about kids selling drugs and pyramid schemes while regulators draft rules for South Korea's exchanges.
View ArticleJust 400%? Willy Woo's Magic Math for Insane Crypto Returns
High stakes altcoin investor Willy Woo has the math to back up his (at times turbulent) investment thesis.
View ArticleThe Data Driven Leader: A Powerful Approach to Delivering Measurable Business...
Data is your most valuable leadership assethere's how to use itread more...
View ArticleRemarks of Commissioner Brian Quintenz at the Technology and Standards:...
Remarks of Commissioner Brian Quintenz at the Technology and Standards: Unlocking Value in Derivatives Markets Conference London, United Kingdom
View ArticleCFTC Staff Grants Time-Limited Extension of Swap Data Reporting Relief for...
The Commodity Futures Trading Commissionâs (CFTC) Division of Market Oversight (Division) today extended relief it provided certain CFTC-registered swap dealers (SD) and major swap participants (MSP)...
View ArticleStraits Times Index (STI) Quarterly Review - No Change To The Constituents Of...
FTSE Russell announces that there will be no change to the constituents of the Straits Times Index (STI), following the December quarterly review.read more...
View ArticleJapan Exchange Group: Construction Of New Secondary Data Center
Japan Exchange Group, Inc. (JPX) has advancing discussions on the construction of a new secondary data center (backup center) based on the "Second Report of the Technical Committee on Exchange...
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